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Wow there is a brand new method of publishing new WordPress Blogs and even what they refer to as “Pimping” your older installs of WP Blogs that seems unbelievable!

Here are some of the premises as I interpret the hype:  One button publishing.  Do your keyword research. Get a string of from hundreds to thousands of keywords in a few seconds, and then you push one button to publish each of those keywords as an individual Blog post article in mere seconds or a few minutes.   Thousands of keyword rich articles that you can back date as many years as you wish and they all look fantastically authentic just as if they had been written by humans.  So the free promo videos and free pdf downloads say.

Now along with each article come perfectly formatted affiliate ads from your accounts at eBay Partner Network, Amazon Associates, Commission Junction (CJ,) ClickBank (CB) digital download products, and even some mention of perfectly formatted AdSense blocks of code with your Adsense Pub ID number receiving the credit for clicks.

Some more bonuses that arrive with each article are free flickr images that absolutely match the article subject.  Free YouTube videos embedded that also match the keywords exactly, and content that is out of this world perfect.

You have your choice to select content from such places as Ezine Articles, Article Base and Yahoo Answers, maybe others.  Now the Mage republishes other authors works as your own article posts, which of course include all of the other above mentioned images and videos, etc.

Remember all of this stuff is done instantly, live and in living color right before your eyes, my fingers never leave my hands, it’s a miracle!

When you see the gorgeous layouts of these Blog posts that are demonstrated in the upsell videos you will be kicking the dog out of the way to get to your credit card.  Hey what’s a thousand bucks or more here and there when it comes to the millions of dollars you are going to make with this method over ‘some’ period of time?

I am very thankful that I have three dogs to jump over, because I took a breath and said, “What the Hell is a Mage anyway?”

Repeat after me, If something doesn’t seem right… (your turn.)

Here we are about to enter into a completely new world of respectable internet marketing.  The Federal Trade Commission rulings come in to effect December 1st, 2009.  I doubt the government will have the resources to regulate even one, one millionth of the potential violations of the new rulings.  They have said that they will likely only investigate violators that are reported to them.  So who would report them?  Why your competition of course.

So besides it is only the US government, right?  Well as in Monkey see, Monkey do.  You can bet your bottom Euro that the EU will be all over this like stink on a fart.  This is going to become the “rule” and not the exception, in my opinion.

Now thinking about that statement caused me to ponder another matter.  Why is it that some of the most successful extremely rich internet marketers are coming out of the woodwork to sell all of us their “personal” get rich schemes?  It has been working for them behind the scenes for many years and some of them have become billionaires. Or so they claim.  I am talking here about two other recently promoted automatic methods of getting rich programs as well as this.

Why is it that the promoters are living in countries that might not be affected by the FTC?  Could it be that if they spread their love around and make enough money from the subscriptions and the upsells from the millions of advertisers that are out there, that when FTC rules kick in they won’t give a damn?

Hmmm, I’m cautious.

Let’s analyze some of the above methods of creating content.  If one ‘borrows’ content from Ezine for instance, you are supposed to give full credit and internal article links and author and Ezine credits, in order to reuse the content.  How could all of that be accomplished with a Mage?

They tell you that they have an awesome method to spin the content.  They translate it into a foreign language and then back to English.  Huh?  Have you ever tried the old kids game of “Whisper a secret?”  It starts with one person whispering a secret in the ear of #2 and then on through each kid until the last and then the end person repeats the secret out loud.  Guess what?  It is gibberish.

I remember in high school French class we had a similar demonstration.  The French teacher whispered a French phrase in a student’s ear.  That student whispered an English translation in the next student’s ear.  That one again in French, and student #4 gave the English translation out loud.  Holy crap you had to pick some of us up off the floor from laughing so hard.  It was gibberish.

When the people that promote the Mage are asked about this element of word and meaning transposition, they play it down and say the search engine bots don’t really care.  Huh?

Don’t we want human beings to be able to read these Blog posts and that the article will have enough meaning that the reader will just be dying to click on an advertiser link?  I don’t know about you, but if I land on a page that even slightly smacks of automated content I hit that green left arrow so fast that the screen is a blur.  But maybe that’s just me.

The flickr images are reported to have the “CC” designation, meaning Creative Commons, and the person that uploaded the image to flickr states that it may be “seen” by anyone.  CC does not mean that everyone has the free use to republish those images, or at least in some cases that is so, I know for a fact.  Many CC images also have another little message block assigned to the author’s use terms.  Does “Some rights reserved” mean anything to you?  At the bottom of every flickr page is a little message that says “Respect the rights of content creators.”

So ask yourself, “Does the Mage ask for permission from the photographer and then give full credit to both the photographer and to flickr?”  Seems like a lot to accomplish in an instant.

YouTube videos I don’t think there is that much trouble with.  As far as I know is if an embed code is available then it is OK to use it, but I could be corrected here, that is just as I understand it.  I do question as to how the pen-ultimate associated content video could possible be selected in automation mode.

Let me give you a personal example that just happened to me just this morning.  I have a new niche that I am very excited about that the greedy gurus have not located yet, so that leaves it up to me to exploit.  LOL.  Any way, this is a technical field that would most likely be viewed by scientists, doctors, medical professionals, university level professors and students and little old ladies in tennis shoes.  So I was experimenting with a very simple minimal theme for a few days until my graphics guy can come up with a new theme header for me.  I suck at graphics.

So I have used this theme before and it converts well for affiliate ads and for Adsense, although on this new site there will be no advertising, at least not for now.  Lo and behold this theme had a YouTube element built in to it that that I did not know about.  I had never seen it before on about a dozen or so sites that I have used this theme on.  You would only see in single post mode and only for first time visitors.

I almost croaked when I found it quite by accident and it kicked in to auto play on a post about this very technical medical terminology subject and it showed this horribly ugly guy with two teeth, ranting filthy rap poetry with a caption something about having been from the Howard Stern show.  Well some people would likely find humor in that, even I admit I laughed at first, but it is no place for an automatic video.  I found the automated code and stripped it out of the theme.

I’ve got to tell you I was intrigued by this phenomenon, WordPress Mage.  I did click through to sign up for the “Free trial” period, then found out none of the automated plugins were available unless I paid the $1K.  No thanks.  I can’t afford your free gifts.

Am I going to buy it?  Nope.  Would I recommend it to my friends?  Nope.  Do I think these Blog posts that incidentally all have the Mage name in their code for all bots to see, going to be around for a long time?  Nope.  Do I think that Google will see the words that include Mage and de-index them?  Well, dunno, maybe though.  Seems possible to me.

Oh one more thing to all high pressure internet marketers that want to sell anything to me.  Do not make me input all of my personal email, phone number, mail address, credit card number and first born child’s blood type into an order entry form “before” you tell me what the price is.  That approaches slime in my book.

Fair notice.  No internet marketer has presented me with a free review copy of any program or gifted me with any goods or services to make this public review.  I am freely giving my opinion and am not swayed by cash offers.